Agencies
The Bombay High Court today refused to grant anticipatory bail to civil rights activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde in the Elgar Parishad-alleged Maoist links case. Justice P D Naik rejected the pre-arrest bail pleas filed by them.
The court, however, extended the interim protection from arrest granted to them for a period of four weeks so that they can approach the Supreme Court in appeal.
Navlakha, Teltumbde and several other activists have been booked by the Pune Police for their alleged Maoist links and several other charges following the violence at Koregaon Bhima village in Pune district on the 1st January 2018.
According to Pune Police, inflammatory speeches and provocative statements made at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on the 31st December 2017 had triggered caste violence at Koregaon Bhima the next day. The police alleged that the conclave was backed by Maoists.